Oh my gosh guys! That's all I can say!
The entries for this contest were amazing! Each entry gave me chills as I read and some actually made my heart race a little! Thank you to all who entered, choosing the winner was not an easy task!
But here they are, the winners:
| T H I R D P L A C E |
| Untitled |
its dark....very dark
not a sound to be heard...
take a few steps forward.....
darkness consumes any given images
only the sounds of a broken spirit await you
Are you scared?
does your fear make you see the unseen?
does your anxiety make you hear the faded screams?
do your insecurities make you take 10 steps back ?
come closer and look deep into the darkness
do you see what i see?
funny isnt it ?its not as big as you expected or as hairy as you anticipated ...no?dont be so sure..
our worst nightmares hang around the light
take one more step ...
breath...
tears begin to roll down your cheeks and
in a heartbeat.. you turn
away from the mirror afraid of what would happen next
SO MENY CHILLS OH MY GOSH. This poem was chilling, the tension and surprise ending totally won me over. A perfect mix of fear and sadness.
| S E C O N D P L A C E |
| Call Me Hell |
By FaeEvermore
She's screaming and yelling
With a broken, shattered heart
She's yelling and screaming
While her life falls apart
There are arguments and threats
She'll listen without a word
There are threats and arguments
So many, too many, she has heard
There is silence and verbal violence
Words bruise her skin more than a fist can
There is verbal violence and silence
Once the tongues fell quiet, her tears ran
There were tears and fears
She screams silently; she'll cry
There were fears and tears
She'll wait for the rage to die
When does it end? When does it stop?
She can't just take this anymore
When does this stop? When does this end?
What does she go on living for?
She's breaking and faking
That isn't a real smile
She's faking and breaking
She must escape to silence of her brain for awhile
She's sleeping and weeping
Will this torture ever come to an end?
She's weeping and sleeping
Must she continue to pretend?
She's lying and crying
I won't tell you what happened there
She's crying and lying
The signs, you saw them, were everywhere.
I'm voiceless and darkness
Deep in her eyes you can see my gloom
I'm darkness and voiceless.
She, with my company, shall feel alone with people crowding the room
I'm the ghost and she is my host
When I'm gone she'll be just a shell
She was my host and I'm the ghost
And you, my friend, can call me Hell
The rhymes for this were to perfect, and the images it brought up were both heartbreaking and breathtaking. Beautifully done.
| F I R S T P L A C E |
| Impossibilities |
By orangemerald
I don't want my tears and rips
To shred you all to burning strips.
I'm a tarnished dragon, a rusted beast,
I am beautiful, I am hideous,
Strong, but mostly weak.
They say I breathe fire or ice,
Or poison gas, but the ones who knew,
Their lives didn't last...
And I try to fly away
Away from the paper birds
I envy so much that my ribbon wind
Chokes them in their wake.
But my wings aren't golden silk
Like they think, no, they're more of
A plastic woven with ink
Which I'm stained with
In ripples deep
Beneath my scales which are lead
And not flakes from the sun
And beneath my skin which is
Not smooth but mangled wires
Twisted undone.
I've snipped a life
Like a loose stray thread
I've cracked open hearts
Just like they were always dead
I've sealed smiles
In fingerprinted tape
I've tortured words to pieces
Before they could break
I've clawed feelings
In gashes torn
I've bled on memories
Stinging and worn.
Now I don't wish these things to be
Unless I do them to a somebody--
Me--because
I'd rather have my
Skin and soul
Peeled back raw like the smoldering
Petals of a crumbling rose.
I'm a dragon and don't you know...
Dragons cast shadows
Wherever they go.
So save yourselves.
I don't want my tears and rips
To shred you all to burning strips.
I am in love with your poetry. I really am. The mix of words sums of such a lovely picture and the words flow so nicely together. Enter your poetry in a official contest or something. Because its great.
| HONERABLE MENTIONS |
blueclaw Hopelessromantic and multidealogist
Congrats to the winners! If you have been promised a cover/etc. as a prize please contact me so that I can make you one (if you even want one that is).
The next contest will be posted tomorrow morning!
Stay lovely✨